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拍品專文
These games tables demonstrate the success of the Chinese export trade in combining Oriental arts with Western forms in appealing to the European and American markets during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Lacquered furniture was made in such centers as Nanking, Tonking and Canton following Western forms, copied from actual examples sent to China or from printed European designs. There, they reached a high point of production and popularity with the Western trade in the early 19th century. These examples are unusual in their demilune form. Carl Crossman in his The Decorative Arts of The China Trade describes a pair of tables that may be this very pair but they are not illustrated.
A rectangular example, also with two additional gatelegs, was commissioned by Nicholas and Abby Brown of Providence and bears their initials 'NAB' (illustrated in C. L. Crossman, op. cit., Woodbridge, 1991, p. 271, pl. 148). Another pair in the manner of a Hepplewhite design is illustrated ibid, p. 270, p. 147.
Lacquered furniture was made in such centers as Nanking, Tonking and Canton following Western forms, copied from actual examples sent to China or from printed European designs. There, they reached a high point of production and popularity with the Western trade in the early 19th century. These examples are unusual in their demilune form. Carl Crossman in his The Decorative Arts of The China Trade describes a pair of tables that may be this very pair but they are not illustrated.
A rectangular example, also with two additional gatelegs, was commissioned by Nicholas and Abby Brown of Providence and bears their initials 'NAB' (illustrated in C. L. Crossman, op. cit., Woodbridge, 1991, p. 271, pl. 148). Another pair in the manner of a Hepplewhite design is illustrated ibid, p. 270, p. 147.